ParameterBroker.java

package edu.illinois.lis.utils;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Map.Entry;
import java.util.Set;


import com.google.gson.JsonElement;
import com.google.gson.JsonObject;
import com.google.gson.JsonParser;

/**
 * N.B.  All params are stored as strings.  It is the responsibility of calling classes to transform into
 * appropriate data types. 
 * e.g. mu = Double.parseDouble(paramBroker.getParamValue("mu")
 * 
 * @author Miles Efron
 *
 */
public class ParameterBroker {

	private static final JsonParser JSON_PARSER = new JsonParser();
	private Map<String,String> params;
	

	
	/**
	 * constructor where we initialize from a json file of structure:
	 * {
	 *  "param1":"value1",
	 *  "param2":"value2"
	 * }
	 * 
	 * @param pathToJson
	 */
	public ParameterBroker(String pathToJson) {
		params = new HashMap<String,String>();
		JsonObject json = null;
		try {
			json = (JsonObject) JSON_PARSER.parse(new BufferedReader(new FileReader(pathToJson)));
		} catch (Exception e) {
			System.err.println("died trying to parse json file: " + pathToJson);
			System.exit(-1);
		}

		Set<Entry<String, JsonElement>> jsonEntries = json.entrySet();
		Iterator<Entry<String, JsonElement>> entryIterator = jsonEntries.iterator();
		while(entryIterator.hasNext()) {
			Entry<String, JsonElement> entry = entryIterator.next();
			params.put(entry.getKey(), entry.getValue().getAsString());
			System.setProperty(entry.getKey(), entry.getValue().getAsString());
		}
	}
	
	
	public String getParamValue(String paramName) {
		if(!params.containsKey(paramName))
			return null;
	    return params.get(paramName);
	}
	
	public void setParam(String name, String value) {
		params.put(name, value);
	}

	
}